Container for the transportation of goods



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"Roman STATES Firm-mm V ,2,oo2 ,422 CONTAINER, FOR THE TRANSPORTATION Michel Marie ean LefevreUtile, Paris,- France Appncanbnmprn' 6, 193a, serial-No. 664,824

In France May 21, 1932 3' Claims. (01. 105-366) The object of my invention is to provide a The elements that form' the container propcontainer for transportation of goods capable of, er, (floor, side walls, roof, etc.,) are placed on travelling by railway, motor vans, ships, etc., and the frame that has just been described. more particularly of boxes that can be arranged This parallelepipedic box I, is preferably made on shelves. l of wood outwardly cased with sheet iron, and 5 While the containers that havebeen used up is made isothermic by inserting for instance to this time consist of panels rigidly assembled sheets of an insulating material between the together, the container that is the object of the walls, so as to leave a small air cushion between present invention consists essentially of a metwothicknesses. It is divided on each side of tallic frame which carries the panels or elea central passage closed by a door 2, into a cer- 10 ments forming the container, and which is in tain number of compartments 12 (Fig. 3) which tended to. support the stresses due to the hanmay for instance be three in umber- Each dling of the container, and especially to its of said compartments may itself be divided in a hauling for placing it onv the platform of railvertical direction, into several spaces, three of 15 way cars, motor vans or carriers, and for ret m f y means of shelves, and the 15 moving it therefrom. Said frame is suitably goods to be transported and more especially braced and provided with hooks or rings for boxes, arearrcm 0n Said ShelVeS- permitting its handling and transshipment. Pivoting Shelves Shown in detail in 4 The box formed by the panels and placed on are pivoted to the edges of the shelves above rethe frame is divided on the inside, on either ferred to. They consist'of two elements [3 and 20 side of a central passage, into compartments 3 Co e d together through iron fittings provided with shelves in which the articles to which are provided with stops 16 intended to be transported are arranged. The passage furkeep the portions l3 and l3 in line with each ther comprises pivoting shelves which can be other when shelf I3 is unfolded. Portion l3 is swung into their operative position, and loaded connected through hinges M to sectional ironslli 5 50 connected together at their upper part by transfl dwith goods. that form the edges of the stationary, shelves. Finally, the container is closed by one or two When it is folded down, shelf [3 is in the position doors which can be locked and sealed. shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5 and extends across A preferred embodiment of the present inventhe central passage so that supplementary tion will be hereinafter described with reference articles or boxes can be arranged thereon in said 30 to the accompanying drawings given merely by passage. 7 way of example, and. in which: Finally, two opposite compartments and the Fig. 1 is an outer view of the container placed portion of the passage extending between them on a carrier; can beseparated from the remainder of the con- Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the metallic tainer by door ll shown in Figs. 3 and 5. 35 frame of the container; In order to load the container, I first fill, for Fig. 31s a perspective view of the inside of the instance with boxes, the shelves of the compartcontainer; ment most remote from the door, that does not Fig. 4 shows a pivoting shelf; carry pivoting shelves I3. I then fold down said 40 Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of the i shelves l3 across the passage, and I fill said piv- 40 side of the container. oting shelves and the stationary shelves by which The frame 0f container I (Fig 1) consists of they are carried. I 171181101059 intermediate (1001 two transversal members 3, supporting two longiand fill the other compartments as abOVe CX- tudinally disposed sectional irons 4 connected at p a n When the container is full, the 0111361 their ends by transversally disposed sectional irons (1 Of the Passage is Closed, d a be looked 45 5. That structure is completed by two longitudiand sealednal members a, the whole being assembled and O course, the number of shelves d ompartbraced by ea of gusgets I, That t cture furments that are shown in the drawings has been ther carries four upright members a which are iv merely y W y of p a d an be modiversal members 9, and by diagonal braces [0. At Wh e I v described what I deem t e p acthe upper end. of each of said upright members 8, tical and eflicient embodiments of my invention, there is fixed a ring H which permits to hang the it should .be well understood that I do not wish container and to perform the transshipment by to be limited theretoas there might be changes 5 means of any suitable hoisting machine. made in the arrangement, disposition'and form 5 of the parts without departing from the principle of my invention as comprehended within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. A shipping container, which comprises in combination, a metal frame, panels carried by said frame so as to form the walls, top and bottom of the container, said frame including a plurality of upright'members disposed at a fixed distance inside said Walls, and fastening means carried by the tops of said upright members respectively, whereby the container can be readily connected to hoistingmeans;

2. A shipping container which comprises, combination, a metal frame, panels carried by said frame so as to form the walls, 'top an'd bottom of the container, said frame including a distance inside said walls, vertical partitions extending between said upright members and said walls, and fastening means, carried by the tops vof said upright members respectively, whereby said container can be readily connected to hoisting means;

MICHELMARIE JEAN LEFEVRE-UTILE. 

